Sentiment Quotes

367 Sentiment quotes by 284 unique authors

The thing about Occupy is that the sentiment the movement embodies is timeless: Don't be greedy, share. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Sentimentality - that's what we call the sentiment we don't share. — Graham Greene
The difference between sentiment and being sentimental is the following: Sentiment is when a driver swerves out of the way to avoid hitting a rabbit… — Frank Herbert
Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other. — David Hume
High culture is paranoid about sentiment. But human beings are intensely sentimental. — Thomas Kinkade
Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed. — Abraham Lincoln
He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make. — Abraham Lincoln
In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect perpetual… — Walter Lippmann
Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment. — Norman Mailer
Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way. — W. Somerset Maugham
From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea… — John Henry Newman
It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or… — Barack Obama
I distinguish sentiment from sentimentality. Sentimentality makes your skin crawl. It's like too much sugar. But, sentiment is a great feeling. — Josh Radnor
A man's sentiments are generally just and right, while it is second selfish thought which makes him trim and adopt some other view. The best… — Leland Stanford
Though times have changed, it's a nice surprise to see that youthful feeling of anti-war sentiment returning once more to the cobbled main streets of… — Cat Stevens
If you love God, you can't hate anything or anyone. If the love one offers is met with hate, it doesn't die, rather it manifests… — Radhanath Swami
Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation. — Rabindranath Tagore
The overwhelming public sentiment in India was that no meaningful dialogue can be held with Pakistan until it abandons the use of terrorism as an… — Atal Bihari Vajpayee
All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women. — Voltaire
It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment, independence now and independence forever. — Daniel Webster
Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement. — Oscar Wilde
What a turnaround in sentiment 'Glee' exemplifies. It was only a few years ago that pursuing the dream of a Broadway career or cabaret stardom… — James Wolcott
Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and… — Aldous Huxley
The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should be hushed. A sentiment more unworthy of a free country could hardly be… — William Ellery Channing
Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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